Talismans and the Lord

Israel was losing to the Philistines. This was not supposed to be. God was to help them win.

Because of the loss that occurred in I Sam 4, the Israelites came to the conclusion that God was not with them. The only solution was to bring God into the camp. They had the mistaken idea that God was somehow tied to His Ark.

We find ourselves doing the same thing at times. When we are losing, we feel the need to bring God into the camp so that we can win. We do this by a bit more reading of the Bible, longer prayers, more repetitions of the chorus, and perhaps even a bit of fasting. By doing so, we can guarantee ourselves the same success as Israel did. then we proclaim the Glory has departed, when in fact, it left a long time ago.

Has the Glory departed from our lives, and we didn't notice?

consider why you pray and read your Bible, and then do it for the right reasons.

Pastor Wayne